Meet Teju Cole, literary su­per­star

New York-based Nige­rian writer and pho­tog­ra­pher Teju Cole has be­come such a literary pop star that celebrity news tabloid En­ter­tain­ment Weekly this week an­nounced his next work, a col­lec­tion of es­says ten­ta­tively ti­tled Known and Strange Things. It is set for re­lease next year. It will re­port­edly span art, literature and pol­i­tics, “with top­ics from Vir­ginia Woolf and James Bald­win to Pres­i­dent Obama and Boko Haram”.